Rooney on his way

[Bongo]

Rooney crossing the Atlantic and taking up hockey would be pretty immense.

[thetank]

I find it interesting that footballers salarys are always quoted as being such and such per week.

Why is this and do they get paid on Friday like wot I do?

I suspect this coz £200k/week is much more emotive than £10m/year.
All you think of when you hear £10m/year is bloody hell that's a lot of money that big star is getting and then you move on with your life.
When you hear someone's on £200k/week you think, crivens he could get a new house every week and let them all out the bugger.
We can relate to £200k, not £10m. Consequently we get much more cross when we hear about the former.

Is my theory anyway.

[gatso]

I kinda assumed it was a throwback to the days when they'd get paid cash on the saturday

[mondatoo]

I don't remember where I heard it but I believe players in Spain get paid every 6 months,tax-free.Sick life.

[Bongo]

I think it also makes it harder to compare footballers to other top earners too.

[The Baron]

Funnily enough I believe Ferguson that it really isn't financial. I too think he'll end up at City and it's down to Colleen.

Tbf though he's about to hit his peak years and Utd are about to hit all time debt for any club in the hostory of world football with no solid basis for the debt being removed any time soon.

IMHO they need him a lot more than he needs them and it could easily be the best move of his career if he goes to somewhere like Real or Barca.

[thetank]

Rooney crossing the Atlantic and taking up hockey would be pretty immense.

I picked the NHL coz I didn't want to deal with too many names.
My post of people who get paid more than Rooney would be far too long if I chose NFL, MLB or NBA to make my point.

Isn't the EPL one of the biggest leagues in the world? Should the salarys of it's top players (of which Rooney is undoubtably one) not rival those of top leagues from other sports?

If Rooney did move over the pond and got 200k/week from some mad MLS team, he still wouldn't make the list of the 50 best paid athletes in the US.

[TightEnd]

TV deals for the major US sports dwarf the EPL TV deals. The disparity is pretty much in this


A 21yo top NFL player, draft picked straight out of college can get say $50m over 6 years before he has played a down and ANY NFL team can afford to pay this if selecting that high in the draft as TV revenues are distributed equally.

Then there is the Salary cap

Baseball a little different as the shar of TV revenue depends on size of market you are in, so the Yankees etc can buy their way to somewhere near the top year after year   

[thetank]

Fair enough Tighty, just trying to fight Rooney's corner for a bit.

He's arguably the biggest player in arguably the biggest club in arguably the biggest league in arguably the biggest sport in the world and yet there's literally hundreds of athletes who get paid more than him.

When he wants to make a move for a little more money^* the redtops^** and pretty much the whole of my facebook^*** look upon him as being monstrously greedy.



^*  or for Colleen or whatever the fuck

^**  I assume, they love this crap

^***  2 guys anyway

[TightEnd]

but reading between the lines I don't think he wants to go for more money, does he?

I'm pretty certain that its personal life/relations with Man U thing first and foremost.

Would be really surprised to see him go to Spain, you just couldn't see him and family being happy there

Hence I would think Man C, also to keep the Mrs happy. I would imagine she is the one holding the roling pin, after his exploits

[Josedinho]

Not that it matters but I think footballers are paid monthly so don't know why we say "he demands X amount a week".
Somebody found Riise's wage slip a few years ago and that was monthly

[EvilPie]

Not that it matters but I think footballers are paid monthly so don't know why we say "he demands X amount a week".
Somebody found Riise's wage slip a few years ago and that was monthly

I bet he finds that really useful.

Like most of us there's little doubt that all his bills come at the end of the month so being paid this way will make managing his monthly outgoings much easier.

[AndrewT]

Not that it matters but I think footballers are paid monthly so don't know why we say "he demands X amount a week".
Somebody found Riise's wage slip a few years ago and that was monthly

I bet he finds that really useful.

Like most of us there's little doubt that all his bills come at the end of the month so being paid this way will make managing his monthly outgoings much easier.

Rooney's such a clown though that he'd spend his £400k in the first half of the month and then have to ask Fergie for a sub to get him through till the end of the month.

[Longy]

Guess who these people are

Vincent Lecavalier, Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Chris Drury, Daniel Briere, Scott Gomez, Dany Heatley, Wade Redden, Jason Spezza, Marian Hossa, Brad Richards, Zdeno Chara, Marian Gaborik, Ilya Kovalchuk, Roberto Luongo, Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg

They're the 18 hockey players who got paid more than Rooney last year.

If you want to look at take home pay, and considering that top rate of income tax in the US of A is 35% and in the UK it's gonna be 50%, then you can expand the list to include another 50 or so skating guys that I've never heard of.

Never been to Canada then, as they are pretty much all household names there.

I would say Sydney Crosby is possibly the most famous person in Canada. Hockey is a great game fwiw.

[77dave]

Where does Man Utd go from here now they are resigned to losing Rooney?

If Rooney is able to buy himself out of his contract at the end of the season for £5m how much can they get for him in Jan?

What funds will SAF have to replace him?